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...Given the praise Mitchnick??s teaching has garnered from students and professors, many speculate that there might be more to her departure than simply the technicalities of a contract...
...think there is this feeling that what Nancy does isn’t hip enough,” Rojer says, referring to Mitchnick??s attention to the fundamentals of painting technique. “If it’s not going on in the insular, coastal, and market-driven art world, then the VES department doesn’t really care...
...Still, the administration maintains that Mitchnick??s departure is solely a contractual issue. “People leave the university and people come to the university. This is not a surprise to her or to the department; we retained her as long as the appointment category permitted us to,” Garber says. “But, the department is absolutely committed to replacing Nancy with someone who teaches painting...
...addition to Mitchnick??s departure, current visiting professor Andrew Beattie—VES’ only other studio painting teacher—is slotted to depart at the end of the 2009-2010 school year. In the absence of definitive plans for filling either opening, the fate of the painting program in the department remains ambiguous...
...Mitchnick??s departure—more than just the loss of a beloved mentor—may point to a larger trend in VES. As a teacher known for her intense focus on the more traditional and basic techniques behind painting—from the origins and mixing of paints to the stretching of canvas—many view her leaving as the loss of a more traditional teaching approach to painting and a shift toward a more conceptually driven department. A shift not all are welcoming with open arms...